It began with a crescent of polished metal arched through soft leather on a slingback mule at Tory Burch’s Spring 2023 runway. Clean, sculptural and oddly satisfying, that pierced arc has evolved from a subtle design note to a full-blown footwear motif.
Tory Burch’s original take on the trend was grounded in contradiction. Soft leather and padded footbeds met hard, cold curves of metal that looked like they’d been forged in an artist’s studio.
